St. Louis Ballroom C [Floor Plan]

St. Louis Ballroom A & B [Floor Plan]
Session Chair: Wolfgang Emmerich
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Biography: Dr. Jon Siegel, OMG's Vice President of Technology Transfer, heads OMG's technology transfer program with the goal of teaching the technical aspects and benefits of the Model Driven Architecture (MDA) based on OMG's industry-standard Unified Modeling Language (UML) and its foundation standards: the MetaObject Facility (MOF), XML Metadata Interchange (XMI), and the Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM).

Siegel's scope also includes OMG's industry-standard middleware, the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA), and the Object Management Architecture (OMA) comprised of the CORBAservices, the CORBAfacilities, and the Domain specifications in vertical markets ranging from life sciences and telecommunications to manufacturing and financial systems. In this capacity, he presents tutorials, seminars, and company briefings around the world, and writes magazine articles, web pages, and books including the popular "CORBA 3 Fundamentals and Programming" and "Quick CORBA 3". With OMG since 1993, Siegel previously chaired the Domain Technology Committee responsible for OMG specifications in the vertical domains.

Dr. Siegel moved to OMG after twelve years with Shell Development Company, the research arm of Shell Oil, where his last position was in the Computer Science Research Department. Siegel's background includes extensive experience in distributed computing, object-oriented software development, and geophysical computing, as well as theoretical and computational work done at Argonne National Laboratory. While at Shell, he served as that company's representative to OMG, playing an active role in several OMG subgroups, chairing the Life Cycle Services Evaluation working group and the End User SIG, and serving on the Object Services Task Force. He holds a doctoral degree in Theoretical Physical Chemistry from Boston University.

Abstract: OMG's Model Driven Architecture® (MDA®) defines an application fundamentally in terms of its business functionality and behavior instead of its technology, and supports a sound IT architecture that lowers the barriers to enterprise integration. Software development in the MDA starts with a technology-independent model of an application, built in the Unified Modeling Language (UML). This model remains stable as technology evolves, extending and thereby maximizing software ROI. MDA development tools, already available from vendors, convert the technology-independent model to a working implementation on virtually any middleware platform: Web Services, XML/SOAP, EJB, C#/.Net, OMG's own CORBA, or others. Portability and interoperability are built into the architecture. OMG's industry-standard modeling specifications support the MDA: UML, now at Version 2.0; the MetaObject Facility (MOF); the Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM); and XML Metadata Interchange (XMI). Version 2.0 of UML enhances Component, Architectural, Behavioral, and Business Modeling, and integrates representation of structure and behavior. OMG Task Forces organized around industries including Telecommunications, Finance, Manufacturing, Biotechnology, and others use the MDA to standardize facilities in their domains.

St. Louis Ballroom A & B [Floor Plan]
Session Chair: Wolfgang Emmerich
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Biography: Michael Hirsch is partner and software engineering consultant with Zuehlke Engineering AG in Zurich, Switzerland. He has been active in software development for more than 20 years in various roles, including project manager, software architect and software developer. His current interests are agile development methods, software architectures, and open source software. He holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from HTL Bregenz in Austria and a degree in Software Engineering from HTL Bern in Switzerland.